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How is Mendeley Different than EndNote?
Feature Benefits Mendeley EndNote X8
Secure, sync across multiple Anytime, anywhere access • Desktop • Desktop
platforms • Web • Web
• Mobile (iOS and soon Android) • Mobile (iOS)
• Does not sync
Full text search Be able to find the right Yes Yes
information quickly
Annotations, highlights Share comments with others Yes No – free version
Yes – paid version
Group, follow capability Ability to share information/ full Yes Only private groups
text as well as ‘follow’ group
trends
Personalized Proactive recommendation Related papers – free No
recommendation Mendeley suggest – paid
Citation style More styles = flexibility 7000 styles 6500 styles
Auto-extract of metadata Saves time and accuracy to Extracts full citation metadata, Only DOI and embeded
from PDF create citation DOI, PubMed, and Arxiv ID PDFs
Library system integration Enable one-click download No (TBC in 2015) Yes
Support non-English More user adoption No Yes
documents and UI
Freemium version Low-cost to entry Yes – 2 GB of storage Yes – 2 GB of storage
Alumni policy Benefits for alumni Yes – 12 months grace period None
then free account
